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On the other hand, productivity growth remains weak, income inequality is increasing, and less educated workers are struggling to find attractive employment opportunities.
In the US, for example, Congress has passed a tax-reform package that may produce an additional increment in private investment, but will do little to reduce inequality, restore and redeploy human capital, improve infrastructure, or expand scientific and technological knowledge.
For China, the issue largely concerns the design and implementation of the next stage of institutional reforms to sustain economic growth and efficiency, reduce social inequality, remove market distortions, address environmental deterioration, and combat corruption.
Finally, the issue for both countries is not corruption or inequality – which are universal – but equal opportunity and, in China’s case, respect for property rights.
Dramatic economic inequality gives way to social and political inclusion.
No government is truly willing to tackle the causes of inequality and hunger, which would require making fair taxation and comprehensive welfare a top priority.
Indeed, rising income and wealth inequality in many emerging markets may eventually lead to a social and political backlash against liberalization and globalization.
That is why economic growth in emerging markets must be cohesive and reduce inequality.
Instead of trying to control inflation, according to Stiglitz, the Fed’s main concern now is to reduce unemployment and counteract inequality.
It may create an altogether a new inequality in the human condition, one not measured by income, which was the consequence of the Industrial Revolution to which Marxism responded, but an inequality in the human condition of an organic type.
Look at the UN human development report for 1998 which provides a few glaring statistics on the inequality in the human condition economically which may provide the basis for a greater inequality scientifically.
But, given rising inequality and growing disenchantment with politics and political parties, it addresses questions that remain relevant for representative democracy today.
The need then will be for more spending on education and training – the only thing that in the long run will make American workers more productive and reduce income inequality.
Only measures like these can create the good jobs that will reduce income inequality and make America again resemble a normal advanced economy, not one where inequality approaches Latin American levels.
At the same time, governments must address inequality of wealth, and thus of food, not least by curbing corporate dominance.
If this trend continues, in 2050, governance systems will be even more poorly equipped to deal with the fundamental problems of perpetual population and consumption growth or wealth inequality.
As environments deteriorate from climate change, toxification, and loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, people will have less time and energy for governance reform aimed at reducing inequality or preserving the environment.
The sad reality is that the inequality at the Kakuma camp is mirrored in many communities worldwide.
One recent study suggests that free trade increases income inequality, and the cost of redistribution could erode upwards of 20% of the gains.
NEW HAVEN – Inequality is usually measured by comparing incomes across households within a country.
But there is also a different kind of inequality: in the affordability of homes across cities.
The impact of this form of inequality is no less worrying.
With people of various income levels increasingly divided by geography, income inequality can worsen and the risk of social polarization – and even serious conflict – can grow.
Emerging economies still need to manage better their growing domestic tensions, which reflect rising income inequality and uneven access to basic services.
The extent to which growth creates opportunities and improves living standards depends on an array of structural and institutional economic policies, including many in areas outside of education and redistribution (the areas most commonly featured in discussions about inequality).
The role that institutions play in shaping economic growth was a key finding of the landmark 1993 World Bank study, The East Asian Miracle, which examined how eight countries in the region achieved “high growth and declining inequality” from 1965 to 1990.
But the perception of this type of mega-corruption has changed as rapid growth has increased inequality.
Rising income inequality is hardly limited to emerging markets, but their combination of open corruption and pervasive inequities creates a toxic brew that is undermining support for reforms that would strengthen and consolidate their economic gains.
The combination of corruption, inequality, and political repression builds up enormous pressure, and there are no institutional channels through which to release it.
These lessons apply equally to advanced economies, which also suffer from rising inequality and subtle forms of corruption.
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